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UI Press | Bilge Yesil | Talking Back to the West
I ask what happens when a personalistic and power-driven regime wields this rhetoric to further its geopolitical and economic goals and obfuscates facts with identity politics, demonizes the West to aggrandize the East and rallies Muslims under Turkey’s purportedly benevolent leadership. +
Moving beyond the typical public diplomacy and soft power frameworks, I use a cultural framework and direct attention to the decolonial and pan-Islamist messages AKP-sponsored outlets deploy to position Turkey as a rising power opposed to Western imperialism and claiming to be the voice of oppressed Muslims around the world. +
My new book is out: Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order. I examine the Erdogan regime's English-language communication apparatus (news channel, news agency, newspaper, social media activity, tv series, journalism training, media conferences...) focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. +
Do we need to remind Turkish pundits having a field day with the police crackdown on US campuses how 1) they label every anti-gov protest in Turkey as terrorism 2) Armenian genocide commemoration in Istanbul has been banned 3) and so will May Day celebrations, and Pride March (for several years now). Anyway, it's a long list and I'm angry.
I'll be giving a research seminar at HKBU on March 1 at 9 pm EST/ March 2, 10 am HKT. You can register here
https://www.hkbu.online/commfilm/when-authoritarian-regimes-talk-back-to-the-west-the-case-of-turkey/When Authoritarian Regimes Talk Back to the West: The Case of Turkey – Research Events
I can't stand hearing my own voice but here's a book talk I gave at George Washington U.
https://ipdgc.gwu.edu/2024/02/20/5658/How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order
Bilge Yesil examines the AKP’s English-language communication apparatus, focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. She also analyzes the decolonial and pan-Islamist message the AKP-backed outlets deploy to promote President Erdogan as the voice of oppressed Muslims around the world.
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